“You’re Not In Any Position To Cast Aspersions On Others” – Atiku To Tinubu

Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of hypocrisy, historical distortion and intellectual dishonesty. Atiku’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, recently had his say via a press statement, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Responding to FG accusing Atiku of mishandling the privatisation policy, Phrank argued that BAT’s criticism of the former Vice President’s economic record falls apart under scrutiny because the same Tinubu previously opposed the very reforms he now appears to be replicating in power.

He added that a leader who has yet to fully resolve questions about his own background should think twice before casting aspersions on others.

His words, “Atiku Abubakar’s attention has been drawn to the latest reckless tirade by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu — a performance that exposes not just desperation, but a troubling pattern of hypocrisy and historical amnesia.

It is not our fault that the President does not and cannot read, because Bola Tinubu has a history of attending a school in Lagos two years before it was founded, upon which he claimed his… Chicago State University degree.

If he were properly educated, he would have acquainted himself with the privatisation records in the presidency or the painstaking account of these reforms as captured by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai in The Accidental Public Servant, where the privatisation programme was clearly documented as a bold and structured effort to dismantle inefficiency and drive private sector-led growth.

The president’s attempt to reduce a serious economic legacy to playground ridicule only underscores a deeper problem: a leadership more comfortable with insults than with facts.

Across the country, families are skipping meals, businesses are shutting their doors, and hard-working citizens are watching their incomes evaporate under the weight of relentless inflation and a collapsing purchasing power.

What has been marketed as reform has translated into hardship without relief — policies that bite harder each day while offering no clear path to recovery.

A leader who has not fully resolved questions about his own background should exercise restraint before casting aspersions on others. Nigerians are watching.”

WOW.